77 Quotes by Adam Rex

You can do terrible things when you don’t know who you are...

She had her shoes on now, and a diaper bag slung over one shoulder. In the opposite arm she cradled Andromeda, who was wearing both her Legolas Onesie and her Keebler booties. Which seemed wrong, you know – mixing two different kinds of elves like that. So now I knew Vicki was crazy.

Control was the basis of all humor. Even at its most innocent, what was a joke or a clever comment if not a way to take control? To become King of the Moment.

When we wants to do something but cannot, that is when we think. When our consciousness awakes up and stretches its arms. That is when we imagine, and plan, and dream about the undone thing.

By the time we stopped for the night, Billy Milsap was as big as an ocean liner.

Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts – the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.

Apocalypse Hal was on the corner by the Laundromat. Hal was a neighborhood street preacher who worked at the fish and crab place next door. He wore a sandwich board sign of Bible verses and shouted angry things at passersby like “The end times are near” and “Seafood sampler $5.99.” Now his sign just read “TOLD YOU SO,” and he looked more anxious than angry.

The Boov frowned. ‘Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?

Archimedes was a mathematician,” blurted Ethan from the back of the room. “And he was Greek. And he invented things.” Ethan was the sort of student who was always keeping score – if he couldn’t be the first to declare his knowledge of something, he would make certain you understood that he’d known it already. One day he would be declared the winner, and there would be a Smartest Boy trophy and a parade.